Retro Gaming News
Before home computers ever had an “adventure game,” there was Colossal Cave Adventure (1976- 1977) by Will Crowther and Don Woods. Often referred to simply as Adventure or ADVENT, it ran on a PDP-10 mainframe, a machine that cost about $150,000 in the 1970s, roughly $1,000,000 in today’s dollars. That kind of setup made sense…
Moving forward, “there will no longer be a release nearly every month”. The developers of the popular multi-purpose emulation framework, MAME, have today announced incoming changes to its system requirements and “the frequency of releases.” The news was shared in a blog published on the emulation framework’s official website earlier today, which revealed that Windows…
System 3 filed for the UK trademark in May 2025. The cult UK video game character James Pond has once again found himself in the middle of a trademark battle with Danjaq, the owners of the James Bond IP, according to a new report from the World Trademark Review journalist Tim Lince. James Pond is…
“Another Visitor! Stay A While…”. Earlier this year, in February, Icon64, a developer of new Commodore 64 games, announced that it had been approached to make a new Impossible Mission 3 game over on Facebook. And now it seems the development of this new game is finally underway, as outlined in a tweet from the…
PC Pillbox was released for DOS in United States. The post 1985: PC Pillbox was released appeared first on Old School Gamer Magazine.
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Garfield no Isshūkan: A Week of Garfield was released for NES in Japan. The post 1989: Garfield no Isshūkan: A Week of Garfield was released appeared first on Old School Gamer Magazine.
Ring Master II: Forget You Not, Evermore was released for PC-98 in Japan. The post 1989: Ring Master II: Forget You Not, Evermore was released appeared first on Old School Gamer Magazine.
Ultraman Club 2: Kaettekita Ultraman Club was released for NES in Japan. The post 1990: Ultraman Club 2: Kaettekita Ultraman Club was released appeared first on Old School Gamer Magazine.
The Colossus of Maroussi, Henry Miller’s travelogue of Greece, was meant to inspire my visit to Heraklion’s Video Games Museum but teargas blurred that vision. I left The James Joyce Irish Pub (no, I didn’t start this journey in Dublin—I came across the pub in Athens) where I watched the football club that I support,…